Front of us. At mutual of america, believe taking care of tomorrow can help you make the most of today. Mutual of america financial group, Retirement Services and vestments. Additional support has been provided by and by the corporation for public broadcasting, a private corporation funded by the american people. And by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. Thank you. From the tisch wnet studios at Lincoln Center in new york, karina mitchell. Mitchell good evening and ing us. Ou for jo a gunman opened fire in a texas church this morning. He killed one person, wounded another, and was killed whenpo ce say, parishioners returnes fire. Servic were in progress at the west Freeway Church of christ in the town owhite settlement, about eight miles west of fort worth when the shooting happened. The church live streams its services. O cal television station wfaa reported that viom the live stream showed aerson in the church stand un, pull out a nd fire twice before anotr person shot back. A texas law allowing worshippers to carry guns places of worship wentnto effect on september 1 of this year. This afternoon, Texas Governor greg abbott issued a statement that said in part places of worship are meant toe sacred, and i am grateful for the Church Members who acted quickly to take down the shooter and help prevent further loss o. There was no word on motive. The other shooting victim remained in Critical Condition late this afternoon. A knife attack in a jesh Community Just outside new york city has left five people wounded, an act new yorks governor is calling domestic terrorism. Re the attack occd around 10 00 last night at a rabbis home in monsey, new york, an area with a large ultraorthodox jewish population. Vi thims were gathering to celebrate hanukkah at the time. As of this afternoon, one person remains in Critical Condition. Th morning, Police Arrested grafton thomas, a 37year old man from greenwood lake, new york, located about 14 miles northwest of monsey. He is charged th five counts of attempted murder and is being held on five Million Dollars e il. Tack occurred amidst a string of antisemetic incidents toin the region. Y, in response to this fotest attack, new York Governor Andrew Cuomo callea new domestic Terrorism Law in th state. He also linked the incent to a larger pattern of hate crimes throughout the country once we become intoenrant of diffs, then we are intolerant with erica because america is all about differences. Mitchell the u. S. Carried out military strikes in iraq and syria against an iranianbacked Militia Group blamed for an attack that killed an American Contractor on friday. In a statement, the Defense Department said u. S foes carried out precision defensive strikes against five sites three in iraq and two in syria. The contractor was killed at a military compound in kirkuk, iraq in a rocket attack. Fo u. S. Service members and two iraqi troops were injured. A Defense Department spokesman said the strikes will limit the Militia Groups ability to carry out future attacks on americans and iraqi allies. National security advisor Robert Obrien said today that the u. S. Af still monitoring north korea r it threatened a christmas gift. Obrien would not speculate about the possibility north korea plans to launch a long range missile or nuclear test. On abc this morning, obrien said the administration continues to believes resident trumlks with north korn leader kim jong un will be successful. Kim jongun promi denuclearize the korean peninsula. We want to hold himeto that comm. And we hope he follows through with the commitment that he made in singapore. But, if he doesnt, we have other tools in the toolkit, as the united states, and we will usthose as necessary. Mitchell on this final weekend of 2019, were taking a look b some of the stories newshour weekend producers and reporters covered is year. The team of ivet feliciano and zachary green joined anchor Hari Sreenivasan to talk about what went into their reporting and what they are working on for 2020. Sreenivasan you guys tooa trip to haiti this year. It was a verproductive one. You came back with a bunch oft differories. What did you find interesting . Reporter so, thats right. We went on the ninth anniversary of the devastating earthquake in haiti, and we dia threepart series, which i think allowed us to delve into a lot of issues that arent mainstream media. One piece that we did was about this historically very tumultuous relationship betweeni haiti and the can republic. And severayears ago, theve dominican ment decided to strip the citizenship of tens of thousands of haitian migrants. And not only them, but people of coitian descent who were born and raised in thtry. And this has caused a huge problem of statelessneng the border of haiti and the dominican republic. But what initially brought us to haiti was that one of our wonderful video editors, judith wolfe, came to us and told us about this story that shed heard, about this incredible door whos based in porta prince. He runs an oanization called gheskio, which is the second oldest Research Institution dedicated to the fight against h. I. V. And aids. He and his team have provided thousands of haitians with Free Health Care and other types of supports, and not only that, but they have really, greatly influenced the global idelines for treating h. I. V. And aids in low resource settings. In the early 2000s, gheskio began providing lifesaving antiretroviral medicine to haitians for free, with support from the global fund and the u. S. Pres emergency plan for aids relief, or pepfar. Today, the World Health Organization implements gheskios treatment guidelines for h. I. V. In lowresource settings around the globe. But not long after gheskiosat aids tnt took off, things literally came crashing down. The 2010 earthquake destroyed or badly damaged half of its buildings, four aff members died, and nearly everyone lost a loved one. I must say the earthqke was the ughest blow that we had. And at encouraged me is that the next day, 60 of our staff was here. So i assembled them in a room. And i said, look, ware the first Black Country to become independent. Weve had major calamities before. We overcame them. And we will overcome this one. Reporter it was really wonderful for us to be able to highlight this unique resilience of this group, because so much of what we hear out of haiti is about political unrest, or deadly epidecs, or poverty and devastation. So to be able to cover this was really special. Sreenivasan what was the feedback after you did that story in the hospital . Rorter dr. Papes team at gheskio notified us that after our piece aired, they received ,000 in unsolicited donations. So, while were that wasnt our initial intention going out there, its really great to hear that the pieces that wproduceve direct impact. Sreenivasan and youve been covering different layers of tho kind of immigrconversation in america and different stories, and one of the fascinating pieces that yowahad this yeaabout venezuelan migrants, but in the united states. Si reporter yes, as we all know, there is a cin venezuela right now, and venezuelans are fling the country in droves. Theyre seeking refuge in neighborg countries, and a lot of them are coming here to the u. S. , where there are venezuelan communities. And one of the biggest communities is in the houston area. Ha there been longstanding ties between houston and venezuela because of their shared interests in the oil industry. And so, venezuelans have been coming to houston and working for years, and so theres already this sort of homegrown place for a lot of them to come to. translated they came to our business and totally destyed it. They looted it, they broke the glass, they stole absolutely all the material, years of work. They drew graffiti of weapons on the walls that said, were coming for you, were coming for your family, we want you dead and thats it. T i knew tcouldnt stay in the country with my wife and chilen anymore. Reporter in 2016, lozano, his wife, and two children walked nearly 150 miles to cross over into neighboring colombia. Two days later, they boarded a flight to houston, texas. translated we left all usour family, we left our our apartment, we left our friends and the belongings that ur still had left. They remained inouse. Everything. Reporter lozano says they decided to come to the houston heea at the urging of a family friend who lived. translated he told us that there was a hpanic and Venezuelan Community here, that venezuelans had been coming to houston and have been living here for years. Reporter so this population tends to be highly eductted. Theyre s, theyre engineers. Antheyre coming to the country with basically nothing. A lot of people in the community are hoping that the u. S. Government will grant them temporary or protective status, as its been granted to other countries. In times of crisis, it was really heartbreaking look at these folkwho are just trying to find somewhere safe to be, after esping what are very, very dire straits right now in their home country. Sreenivasan and this past year was also a year after the tree of life shootin, which you two scrambled to, right when it happened. But a lot of times in these kind of stoes, we dont get an opportunity to go back and see whats happened to the comnity after that tragedy. So what did you find . Reporter well, we went to pittsburgh the day after the shooting last year. And so this year, we wanted to go back and we wanted to see how the community was faring. We spoke with a Mental Health while we were there, an one of the things that he said was that theres no way to t return to the normal ts your life before this event happened. What the community is trying to do now is to integrate that experience and dysine positive f healing. T i. I ough these scenarios in my mind, as i think a lot of the other victims dokn too, about, yo, i could have done more, i could have saved people. Why did this person choose to do x, y, and z . Why dithey turn the other way . And. Its part of the trauma, y know . Its part of being human. Reporter as the community entered the first new year since the attack, stephen cohen, copresident of new light congregation, said he was feeling anxious. Whats on your mind . What are you thinking right now . Im afraid. Im afraid because the high holidays are a time of reflection, of introspection, of asking god for forgiveness, and to write us in the book of life. How do you relate that to what happened last october . How do you think about your inture when you have a past haover you . Reporter one thing that we saw while we were there is that we spoke with a board member from tree of life and she showed us all of this artwork that had been sent in by students from all over the country, including a artwork from Parkland High School in florida, which suffered its own shooting a few months before the one at tree of life t and theyd this artwork and theyve blown it u theyve blown up very large prints of it. And they put it all around the fencing, around the building, that housed tree of life. It was very sad, but it was also lifeaffirming, in a way, to see that ts community is finding a way to kind of bind themselves together again after this. Reporte and i remember something that she told us, which just sticks in my mind, is that they had been, you know, involuntarily inducted into this club that nobody wants to be a part of, but that they fnd thathat network, that community of people who have also, you know, been through tragic events like this, its a real, tangible network of people. And actually, one woman who we spoke to, michelle rosenthal, who lost two brothers inhe attack, said that shes met with parkland families and that its an instant connection. And that when similar tragedies happen, like in el paso or dayton, ohio, they get in touch with each other. They know how triggering these events can be. And its the type of support that only people who have been through Something Like that can provide each other so that really sticks wi me. Sreenivasan zach green, ivette feliciano. Thank you both. Reporter thank you. Mitchell in our next convsation about the stories we covered in 2019, sreenivasan sat down with reporter Christopher Booker and senior produm casciato. Idreenivasan chris, you d a sty this year thats not traditionally a tv story, about a concept, an idea masculinity. How did we get there . Reporter i had become obsessed with this briunk band cled idles. And of the many reasons i like them is that they were actually singing about things you wouldnt necessarily atiociate with b punk bands. Namely, they were holding a mirror to traditional ideas of masculinity. So i waselling tom, i was like, god, this album, its called joy, its an act of resistance and i love it. They laugh at me when run i waste away for fun reporter so it turns out they had really tapped into a conversation thats happening really all around the world, as it relates to the behavior and the traditional ideas of how we socialize men. With idles, theyre talking about the influences of their irthers, how they have always suppressed tmotions. Joe talbot is the lead singer, and bands principalist. Its a purposeful journey were going on. Reporter what is the pue . To start a conversation, i think. Reerporter the cotion idles is looking to start is a complicated one, but at its core, they are asking the audience particularly, the men in the crowd to reconsider how they treat one another, how they treat women, and how they treat thselves. If you share your feelings, your load gets lighter and you will have a better outcome. Repter so just as idles is releasing this album, the american pchological associat ever, released a landmark paper thatooked at the traditial s ways that we socialize bd men, and how this may be nnecd to some rather unhealthy outcomes. Men are 3. 5 times more likely to commit suici. They die from cancer and Heart Disease at a disproportionately high rate. And, much of the research is pointing to, it cant just be explained by our y chromosome. Psychologist Christopher Liang is the chairperson of lehigh universitys college of education, and was a coauthor of the a. P. A. Guidines. When boys are not allowed to express their sadness, their hurts, when theyre growing up, theyre essentially taught that they shouldnt have pain. And what that does over time is it creates a condition where boys who are becoming men stuff their pain. S sreenivasan now, you g both love music. You sit not too far from each other. Youre talking about this every once in a whil but you did a piece that i thiy youve probawanted to do for a very long time. You got to hang out with carlos santana. Eporter about 50 years in the making, that piece. It was for the 50th anniversary of woodstock. And we knew that carlos was going to do press for that, and that everyone was going to want to hear about his hallucinogenic fueled legendary performance as woodstocwe wanted to go in a different direction and talk about the road that led him ther well, tom, what happened was that my fathers a musician, and when i saw how people aecifically, women look my dad when he played the violin and when he sang, i looked at them and i looked at him and i was like whoa. My dad wld draft me once in a while. Hed say, you know, so and so is not agood. Put on this mariachi suit and but i couldnt get a sound on the olin. I didntike the way i sounded. I didnt like the way the violin smelled, and i didnt like the way it felt. But i try to please my dad as ch as i could. And i won a two, three contest in the fairs playing fascination singing Doo Doo Doo Doo doo. They gave me the trophy, you know. Eporter thats not bad for a guy who didnt like the smell of the violin. Exactly. D but i do it to please my dad. Sreenivasan one of the stories that wasnteresting this year is about college, our algher education and whos going these days, and , our traditional notion of what we think about college, you know,wa the ivycoveres and mom and dad dropping the kids off in the Station Wagon or the minivan thats really not whos going to school. Reporter yeah, its really changed. It turns out, 22 of all College Students in the u. S. Arent pa im the youngest of eight, d im the first in my entire family to step foot on a college campus. I mean, i grew up with not ving anybody go to college. And so, if you grow up, or youe ople around you that never look like you do Something Like this, you dont ever see it for yourself. Reporter to describe angels path to her bachelorss degree as a journey driven by grit and determination uld be an understatement. Im graduatin reporter but she says it actually started unexpectedly, when her first daughtejust two years old. I was working at baby gap, because i got a really Good Discount on the clothes. Ughs and just kind of making ends meet. And then i realized i needed wo do somethih my life to provide for my daughter. And just by accident, ed Valley College and pulled in. This was 8. 5 years ago. Reporter as an enrolled student in the los angeles Valley College, a twoyear Public College in the san fernando valley, angel was able to send her daughter to the oncampus licensed cldcare facility, for free. What she didnt know at the time was, this was only part of what was on offer for parents attending l. A. Valley college, and the other part would play a pivotal role in helping to keep her in school when she gave h birth second child. I came back, my daughter was 13 days old. And marni roosevelt, whos the director of the Family Resourcef center, was ony professors. And so, marni approached me and sa, we have a lactation room urwith a refrigerator for breastmilk. We have parenting playgroups where you can come with her, and stet with a therapist, and this whole program foent parents. Reporter you know, if you are trying to cobble together a list of classes and a degree, you know, any parents out there know, one little thing goes wrong, youre not making it to0 your a. M. Class. Youve got to get to a study group at 4 00 p. M. And maybe your kid has the flu and the doctors appointment is at 3 30 . Youre not going to make it there. But this group has developed a foprogram that offers care, counseling. And their Graduation Rates have gone up substantially. After she complete dher associatree at l. A. Valley college, she was hired by the Family Resource center. He she transferrecredits to California State University northridgewhere tomorrow, may 20, she will graduate with a bachelors degree incience. Its likethe representation of everything i have done has mattered. Reporter eight years is a long time. Eight years is a long time. Reporter and you did it. And i did i im sorry, im, like. Sreenivasan theres a theres an example of very concrete story, and then you take the absolute opposite of the most abstract idea. Sean carroll conversation, why quantum physics, why quaum mechanics, and w on tv . Reporter well i was a kid who never took science classes, never understood scien i convinced myself i had no aptitude for science. D a couple of years ago, i started thinking about, gee, id kind of like to know what reality is. Im getting a little old now. And seanarroll is really one of our great science communicators. Hes a physicist at caltech. And sean carroll is a proponent of a controversial theory called the many worlds theory, which suggests that there ariple universes. For example, when a scientist is observing a tiny particle, like an electron, another copy of the universe is created, including o another coyourself. So, he would say y sreenivasan so theres infinite copies rself in all of these different universes right now. Reporter there are haris evywhere. laughter the people in other worlds arent me. Th might have come from th same youngster as i did reporter they might have but theyre a different person. Reporter slow, slow, slow, slow down. U what do an they might have come from the same youngster that you were . So in other words, in many worlds, there was a youngster. There was a person who i have descended from over the last some number of years. And the world has branched many, many times since then, and so there are other people in these other worlds who were me, back then, but now theyre different people, because the world has branched since then. Reporter is the a person who used to be me, who is the point guard for e portland trail blazers . There is, yes. Reporter at my height . And you won the n. B. A. Championsh reporter of course, we have no way of accessing these other universes. What he says is that the physicists who. Who agree with him on this, see these universes not inheir microscopes, but in their mathematics. Its their equations that tell them this. Its a very controversial theory, but hes far from the only person whos a proponent of it, and hes very conv about it. Mitchell for morur producer favorites watch here or visit pbs. Org newshour. Sreenivasan you just started shooting some stories. What are you working on . Reporter i have a few jories coming up. My colleague andt filmed a story in wisconsin, and this relates to care of elderly individuals with developmental pd intellectual disabilities. Turns out, a larcentage actually still lives at home with elderly parents. So we went twisconsin and met with this really sweet family. A couple, theyre 84, and their son, an intellectuallyabled avult, is 51. And theyre reallyg to make some hard choices about like, forfuture look them, and for their son after theyre gone. Reporter i have a couple ngher good music pieces co up, with two great vocalists. One of them is Shemekia Copeland who grew up up the street here in harlem, during the hip hop era, surrounded by blues music. Im in the blood of the blues it was about second grade when i realized i wasnt like the other children. Because i had this one teacher that hosted a talent day. And she would have all the kids get up and and do something in front of the class. I got up there, and i said, im a woman. I can make love to crocodile. You know, it was an old koko taylor song. laughs and i got myselfn a lot of trouble. Reporter another is a woman called concha buika. Asunderstand that in las v you were a tina turner impersonator . Yes, sir. laughs reporter what was that like . laughs cool. laughs reporter yeah . But did you ever say to yourself, damn, i have this great voice, why am i impersonating another great singer when im a great singer . t well, because, when you sing for someone, doeatter if you are in a big stage, in a i small staga wedding, in your home singing for your family, or singing f someone whos ill because you want to make him feel good. That is big stage. Reporter so, those will be up soon. Sreenivasan all right, Christopher Booker, tom casciato, thank you bo. Reporter tha you, hari. Mitchell tomorrow on pbs newshour, there will be continuing coverage of todays events. And finally, its our last weekend broadcast for 2019. So happy new year, and happy new decade well see you again in 2020. 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